Posted on 02/06/2016 1:47:14 AM PST by RC one
Edited on 02/06/2016 5:34:58 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
BOSTON (AP) — Two legal scholars squared off in a public debate on Friday to settle whether Republican Ted Cruz is eligible to become president. Spoiler alert: They didn't settle it.
But the debate at Harvard Law School underscored that conflicting interpretations of the U.S. Constitution can produce different answers. The question has been in the national spotlight since Republican rival Donald Trump suggested that Cruz, who was born in Canada to an American mother, isn't legally qualified to be president.
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You sure about that?
So ask yourself Why are so many candidates who are not eligible running on the REPUBLICAN ticket? I think we are watching a kabuki with well written script and cast of characters.
Puts the lie to that whole "no one likes Ted Cruz" line.
I have always had to get used to the stupid. I read Dem sites, too.
I’d like to know why everyone is concerned about Cruz and not Rubio.
The Constitution doesn’t have the words “soil” or “two citizen parents” in it. If you’re adding in things based on future laws, which you must be, short of an outright misinterpretation, then we know our laws made Cruz a citizen at birth. So he’s natural-born.
Not necessarily so.
That definition is sufficient but it is not exclusive. IOW, someone who fits those qualifications is clearly a NBC, but so might others be who do NOT meet that definition. If your definition were to be accepted the following past Presidential candidates (and there may be more) would have been ineligible to take office:
George Romney
Barry Goldwater
John McCain
Barack Obama
And among the current crop, both Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz would be ineligible.
And, if the phony 'dual citizenship' standard were adopted, so would Donald Trump, since he is eligible for British citizenship merely asserting his right to it.
Natural Born Citizen = born on the soil of the country to two citizen parents.
Ted Cruz fails both requirements.
So did Obama, but who cares about that musty old parchment any more?
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Shouldn’t this be the issue regarding RUBIO? Neither of his parents were US citizens, so he’s just a Cuban anchor baby!
Funny. If there is nothing to this, why does it bother the Cruz zombies so much they feel the need to keep posting inane comments to the thread?
No one changed the Constitution. It said Cruz had to be natural-born and he was.
By your logic, free speech wouldn’t apply to TV and radio, since they didn’t exist at the time of the Constitution. No reasonable interpretation of the Constitution could say the 1st amendment applied to forms of speech which the framers never knew would ever exist.
Have you been following the ballot challenge in Illinois.
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I believe I read something on FR a couple of days ago that stated that Illinois had declared Cruz eligible.
Not only has the simple definition I posted been the standard in America since its founding, it’s the purest form of citizenship that exists.
It astounds me that anyone who loves America and the Constitution, would argue that the Framers intended the requirements for the office of the president to be of an inferior quality than that.
Yes, Rubio may be a citizen, but no way is he a natural born citizen, due to the fact that neither of his parents were American citizens upon the occasion of his birth.
Of the names you mentioned, only George Romney and Obama fail the test. All the others were born on U.S. soil or territories of the U.S. to two American citizen parents.
So my BIL, who was born overseas because his father was a businessman, whose parents’ American heritage date back to Powhatan on his mother’s side and 1832 on his father’s side, whose older and younger brother both born in the US could be President, is not eligible to President?
And people want to make this stick just because their guy is not Ted Cruz?
Joyce told the Huffington Post Tuesday that he does not plan to appeal the board's decision.
Ruling: Ted Cruz is a 'natural born citizen' | Washington Examiner | 2/2/16 10:58 PM
Reached by phone on Tuesday, Joyce -- who is listed as an attorney in Illinois but doesn't actively practice law -- told The Huffington Post he's not planning an appeal of the board's determination due to lack of resources. He said, however, that he hopes "somebody else takes up the cause" against Cruz.
Ted Cruz Is A 'Natural Born Citizen,' Board Of Election Finds | Huffington Post | 02/02/2016 06:37 pm
Congress is empowered by the Constitution to 'establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,' Art. I, S: 8. Anyone acquiring citizenship solely under the exercise of this power is, constitutionally speaking, a naturalized citizen.
It’s because they don’t understand why we fought a war for independence from England.
The Framers didn’t define a single word or phrase in the Constitution, but that doesn’t mean we can’t discover what their original intent was.
We need only consult their letters and reference works of the day. Doing so reveals what the common understanding of the terms were at that time.
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